Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carn (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermogue
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermogue
- Coordinates
- 53.47545, -7.55465
- SMR number
- WM024-122----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the N side of a rise, in pasture. Annotated ‘Tobermogue’ on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Leveled holy well described in 1977 as no surface remains visible. All that remains extant is a small rise at the location of the well.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.